Other Word Forms
- diagrammatically adverb
- nondiagrammatic adjective
- nondiagrammatical adjective
- nondiagrammatically adverb
- undiagrammatic adjective
- undiagrammatical adjective
- undiagrammatically adverb
Etymology
Origin of diagrammatic
1850–55; diagram + -atic as in problem, problematic
Example Sentences
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One casts shadows, the other is flatter, more diagrammatic, with thread sewn into the canvas; a new proposition about the same thing.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
Note that this process is a diagrammatic version of the product rule.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Writing in The Times, Roberta Smith said his small ink drawings and gouaches “operate somewhere in the gap between William Wegman’s drolly captioned early drawings and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s acerbic diagrammatic images.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
Learning from their experiences, BDP has produced a “how to” guide, drawn in the clear diagrammatic style of an Ikea furniture-building manual, to help other projects.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2020
The heavy black outline gives in a general way the outline of the table proper and thus shows a diagrammatic distribution of the parts.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano
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